On Dec 13, 2009, at 10:38 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>> ...
> The point of my ramble is this: needs-based justification wasn't
> always around. It's something we invented ad-hoc halfway through the
> game to address the disaggregation and over-consumption problems. As
> entrenched as it now is in formal policy, "needs-based allocation" is
> an underlying assumption we never really thought through all the way
> from the beginning.
Bill -
Needs-based allocation wasn't "invented ad-hoc halfway through the game"...
(unless claiming the ARPANET as the starting point for the game :-)
As early as 1990 (in the classful, pre-web, single-default Internet), you
had to explain your initial, 1, 2, and 5 year address needs in order to
obtain address space. See the following DDN NIC application template,
dated April 1990, for the specifics of question 8 & 9 regarding the
allocation policy at that time.
Departure from needs-based is certainly possible if warranted by the
circumstances and desired by the community, but we should recognize
such would be a departure from nearly two decades of existing practice.
I'd just like to make sure that the record is straight regarding the
allocation policy history in this area.
FYI,
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
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